We may finally be ridding ourselves of one of the greatest RINOs in the Senate. John Cornyn will not be missed.
Since he ignored our boos at the Republican convention, let him hear our boos at the polls.
Herbert Richards on Texas Scorecard.
The GOP has two major issues. One, the “leadership” of the party is very separated from the base. The difference between them (e.g., McDonnell, Graham) and the Democrats is not in kind, but degree. Now the leadership knows how to keep themselves in power. Continually they use party money (supposedly for general elections, not primaries) to get one of their candidates nominated. They then give the voters the choice “completely sucks ” (the Democrat) or “sucks slightly less” (the RINO).
Tied into this is the base’s problem with voting in off year elections. Republicans always turn out in presidential election years. The issue is they don’t turn out as well as Democrats between the presidential elections. Politicians of both parties take advantage of that, as local policymakers elect local officials or put massive bond issues on the ballet when 15% of the electorate is voting.
Well, we may finally get a break on one RINO. If all goes well, come March 2026, John Cornyn, Texas’s senior senator, will be a lame duck. Ted Cruz will be heading to be our senior senator, with another conservative as his understudy.
John Cornyn (nicknamed John Wayne McCornyn by a local talk show host) was originally elected in 2002 and has been an ally of Mitch McConnell ever since arriving in the capital. After serving as Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee chair (2009-2013), Cornyn was seen as heir apparent as senate leader. Fortunately he was not given that critical position after McConnel stepped down in 2024. In 2022, he whipped up GOP support for the Joe O’Biden’s “Safer Communities Act” (almost as bad an oxymoron as Inflation Reduction Act or military intelligence), infuriating the base. Reportedly he wanted “something that would pass.” I guess having something that would work was too much to ask.
In 2023, he openly called for President Donald Trump to not run, saying “We need to come up with an alternative,” Cornyn told reporters, per the Dallas Morning News. “I think President Trump’s time has passed him by and what’s the most important thing to me is we have a candidate who can actually win.”
Where have I heard that before? Oh, yea, from the RINOs who gave us John McCain, Mitt Romney, and the one-hundred-million-dollar man JEB! (who won all of six delegates for all that cash). But you would not know that from Cornyn Inc. His campaign videos show him and President Trump as Frick and Frack, on the economy, on law enforcement, and on the border, even using a video of the senator on a speed boat patrolling the Rio Grande River.
Strange, in 2016 Senator Cornyn called then candidate Trump’s plan for a border “naive,” saying “The idea you’re just going to build an obstacle somebody can clime over, or around, or though, without having the boots on the ground and the technology like the radar and aerostats on the border it’s just not as simple as building a wall and the problem will go away.” Senator Cornyn wanted a “tactical infrastructure or fencing, or virtual border.”
Well if virtual fencing is good enough for the US border, I think it’s good enough for the US Capital, right? Strange Senator Cornyn, a border wall has reduced illegal crossing from 10-12 thousand a day to less than 300. Is that the “naïve” plan you are claiming joint credit for now?
I remember in 2016 Senator Cruz, at the Republican National Convention, pointedly did not endorse Donald Trump. Neither did Senator Cornyn. But Cruz, looking at the abyss of a President Hillary Clinton (the thought of that woman appointing Antonin Scalia’s replacement should make any sane person vote for Micky Mouse), endorsed Donald Trump in the fall.
John Cornyn didn’t. Like the RINOs of the senate, he would rather work with someone more radical than Barrack Obama than Donald Trump. The senior senator from the reddest state in the country.
The good news is Senator Cornyn has serious competition in this election. Texas has a fighter in her current attorney general, Ken Paxton. He sued both Obama and O’Biden multiple times over the years for multiple abuses. In 2022, General Paxton warned “physicians” (giving them too much credit) if they mutilate children as treatment for gender dysphoria, they would be prosecuted for child abuse (a felony under Texas law).
Initially, Paxton held a 45%-31% lead over Senator Cornyn. With the recent entry of Congressman Wesley Hunt (Houston area Republican and combat veteran), Paxton leads with 31%, while the other two each have approximately 24%. A 24-year veteran senator, with the full weight of the party behind him, is at best seven points behind in a three-way race. Cornyn knows he is in trouble.
Assuming neither candidate gets fifty percent plus one in the March primary, the top two will have a runoff in May. If Cornyn is number three, he will lose the job he spent a lifetime working for. The question is what will Senator Cornyn do after that?
President Trump has intentionally not endorsed a candidate in the primary because he doesn’t want to alienate Cornyn. There is no question the lame duck senator will not be in the mood to support President Trump.
The open question is will he not support the Republican nominee or mount an independent run in the fall. Both have happened in the past (Senator Lisa Murkowski anyone), and an offended RINO has nothing beneath him. But culling of the GOP herd is desperately needed. With friends like Cornyn (or Graham, or McConnel, or McCain) who needs Democrats.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
Opinions expressed are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of current or former employers.
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